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United Way: 42% of Cuyahoga County households are below ALICE or federal poverty thresholds
Summary
United Way presented ALICE data showing 16% of county households are below the federal poverty line and an additional 27% qualify as ALICE (asset-limited, income-constrained, employed), combining to 42% of households lacking sufficient income; East Cleveland had the highest ALICE concentration (about 79%).
United Way of Greater Cleveland presented the 2025 ALICE report to the Cuyahoga County Healthy Human Services and Aging Committee on July 2, telling councilmembers that ALICE—households that work but still cannot meet a local survival budget—now account for a significant portion of local need.
Ken Sar, United Way's chief revenue officer, described 211 call-data as a real-time indicator (United Way received over 226,000 calls countywide last year) and said ALICE data complements that work by estimating local survival budgets for different household types. Miriam…
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